Regret Nothing

This may seem a different topic for just after Thanksgiving, but it's been sitting in my draft box for about a month now, and I thought I'd finally get it out on the web. The following article sparked some thinking when I first read it and has been something that I wanted to touch on as well. What do you regret, if anything. Was it a job change, a relationship that went sour, or simply what you had for dinner last night? This question comes up in a different form when you're being interviewed. It usually goes something like this, "What one thing would you change if you could change it?" I've always been one to answer nothing on this. Are there things that I wish I would have handled differently? Absolutely! Are there things that have happened that I wish wouldn't have? Of course there are. But these things are the things that have made me the person I am today. As you struggle through problems in life, (hopefully) you're growing through them. Next time that situation comes up, I hope I handle it in the better way. So learn from your mistakes, your problems, even the tragedies that may occur in your life. My prayer is that you would not remain in them, but that you would grow stronger and learn from your mistakes. Don't forget the past, just don't live in it. With failure comes regret. Can we, as Edith Piaf so famously sang, "regret nothing"? Or is regret an important part of failing forward?
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